£80
12mo, pp. 143, [1]. Several illustrations included within pagination. Original brown cloth, boards blocked with a blind frame, front board lettered in gilt. A little scattered foxing and soiling. Boards a little mottled, a little wear to rear joint. Prize inscription to pastedown dated 1867, modern ownership inscription of JB Redfearn to flyleaf.
A rare printing of a collection of reports of maritime disasters, mostly at least putatively from the testimonies of serving naval officers. The wrecks covered are the mailship Lady Hobart, lost in 1804 off the coast of Canada; the Eastindiaman Cabalva, wrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1818; HMS Centaur, a 74-gun ship of the line which foundered off the Grand Banks in 1782, and HMS Litchfield, which ran aground on the Barbary Coast in 1758. This 1844 printing is not recorded in Library Hub or Worldcat, which record between them several printings between 1824 and 1855, including an 1837 printing at Cambridge also designated a 'New Edition, with cuts'.
